2016

Connie Jenkins In 2002 Connie Jenkins was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent treatment, recovered, and was believed to be cancer-free. So it came as an unwelcome shock when in 2015 she [...]

Mara Street “I love my insurance company” is not a phrase you hear very often, but it’s something that Mara Street says with sincerity. In 2011, her insurance company, TriCare, called and left an [...]

Hope Good Beating cancer once is tough enough. Having to fight it twice can be devastating. In 2014 Hope Good was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a double mastectomy, underwent chemo, and [...]

By Kristi Calvery Recently, 16-year-old Brittany Bennett got a tattoo on her forearm. Her choice wasn’t based on a whim, but rather it was an intentional reminder of how precious life is despite [...]

By Tom Cook, Montana Historical Society Rick O’Shay and Hipshot and the other friends of famous Montana cartoonist and author Stan Lynde are riding again in an exhibit at the Montana Historical [...]

On April 16, 1959 prisoner Jerry Myles and his accomplices, Lee Smart and George Alton, took control of Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. The riot was started when the prisoners seized rifles [...]

Senator Taft speaking to a crowd on Main Street in Lewistown, 1952 By L. Abigail Jones In the United States, those of us born after 1980 are part of the first generation who does not know our own [...]

Havre In 1951 a radar station was built at Simpson, forty miles northwest of Havre. Prompted by the start of the Korean War, the station was intended to function as a ground control intercept and [...]

Named after its anchors, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, The Huntley-Brinkley Report was first aired on NBC in 1956. The fifteen minute news program was initially ill-received by audiences who [...]

Many Montanans in 1959 had lived through the Helena earthquake of 1935. Even if they weren’t in the capital city at the time, they could remember news of the destruction – more than $4 million in [...]